Thorn & Bloom Magazine 06: Live Author Reading

Thorn & Bloom Magazine is a quarterly publication dedicated to exploring self-care as a pathway to personal and collective liberation. Each issue challenges how societal norms and socialisation suppress individuality, autonomy, and self-worth, positioning self-care not as indulgence, but as an act of resistance and a tool for healing.

For Issue 06, we explore the body as an archive, a living record of memory, trauma, resilience, and delight. Our bodies hold what words cannot always reach. The ache in a shoulder that carries grief. The flutter in a chest that remembers joy. The scar that tells a story no longer spoken aloud.

But before the magazine is released, join us for a live virtual reading as our contributors bring their words to life. You will hear poems and prose rooted in the feminist consciousness-raising tradition, trusting lived, felt experiences as sources of knowledge and power. RSVP now to receive your…